The late response can be blamed on bad government above all else in my eyes, but the locals and other citizens around the country have done all they can to help. My aunt was down there for over a month doing case work for the red cross and it's just amazing the stories she's emailed me. The one thing I can't get out of my head which is a minute detail as it is was the depiction of 3 and 4 mile long lines of people every day with people coming to help and looking for assistance...all trying their best to help each other out spiritually while awaiting their turn to see if they qualify for assistance.
Anyway...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802037.html
So much for the local businesses receiving the majority of the projects to rebuild New Orleans.
I didn't want to bring all this up earlier because many hated that it was being "politcized" so much. Wonder why that was? Some don't want to face the music of what something like Katrina will mean later. People didn't want 9/11 to be politicized by the "liberals," yet it was drug through the mud and still is by our President and administration. We still don't have all the answers as to how 9/11 happened. Bush doesn't want to let us forget that it happened, yet he doesn't want us to know why it happened. Apparently it was no one's fault in particular so we should just move on. I've never understood that kind of thinking. Trillions will be spent on a war that will spread across the globe to combat a global issue that is being fed by that very war. Oh and treason, lies, and cover-ups surround key information that concerned one of the biggest arguments of the proponents for the Iraq War. So, I guess we don't want to spend too much time and money into these sort of things either then? We wouldn't want answers coming out of investigations when it comes to all this.
Taking care of the wealthy first does nothing to ensure shared sacrifice and mutual responsibility for America's future. For the first time in history, a wartime president and his allies in Congress have sacrificed the nation's well-being to their ideology by asking nothing from those that have prospered so much from the collective work of all Americans. After cutting taxes for the wealthy after 9-11 and before the war in Iraq, conservatives now have the audacity to claim that Katrina should actually speed up the move to repeal the estate tax for millionaires. The culmination of 30 years of conservative dreams and proposals has produced little more than a destabilized economy racked by corruption and misplaced priorities that favor the needs of the few over the national interest.
To help Americans think about values, progressives must place these truths in the larger context. We must use them to demonstrate the strength of progressive philosophy compared with the failings of conservatism. We must communicate these truths as part of a positive, values-based vision of government and society, not just to prevent another Katrina tragedy but to stop the conservative juggernaut in its tracks and save our nation from the far greater disaster of conservatism itself.
http://alternet.org/katrina/26960/
http://alternet.org/katrina/26969/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/17/AR2005101701230_pf.html
Anyway...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802037.html
So much for the local businesses receiving the majority of the projects to rebuild New Orleans.
I didn't want to bring all this up earlier because many hated that it was being "politcized" so much. Wonder why that was? Some don't want to face the music of what something like Katrina will mean later. People didn't want 9/11 to be politicized by the "liberals," yet it was drug through the mud and still is by our President and administration. We still don't have all the answers as to how 9/11 happened. Bush doesn't want to let us forget that it happened, yet he doesn't want us to know why it happened. Apparently it was no one's fault in particular so we should just move on. I've never understood that kind of thinking. Trillions will be spent on a war that will spread across the globe to combat a global issue that is being fed by that very war. Oh and treason, lies, and cover-ups surround key information that concerned one of the biggest arguments of the proponents for the Iraq War. So, I guess we don't want to spend too much time and money into these sort of things either then? We wouldn't want answers coming out of investigations when it comes to all this.
Taking care of the wealthy first does nothing to ensure shared sacrifice and mutual responsibility for America's future. For the first time in history, a wartime president and his allies in Congress have sacrificed the nation's well-being to their ideology by asking nothing from those that have prospered so much from the collective work of all Americans. After cutting taxes for the wealthy after 9-11 and before the war in Iraq, conservatives now have the audacity to claim that Katrina should actually speed up the move to repeal the estate tax for millionaires. The culmination of 30 years of conservative dreams and proposals has produced little more than a destabilized economy racked by corruption and misplaced priorities that favor the needs of the few over the national interest.
To help Americans think about values, progressives must place these truths in the larger context. We must use them to demonstrate the strength of progressive philosophy compared with the failings of conservatism. We must communicate these truths as part of a positive, values-based vision of government and society, not just to prevent another Katrina tragedy but to stop the conservative juggernaut in its tracks and save our nation from the far greater disaster of conservatism itself.
http://alternet.org/katrina/26960/
http://alternet.org/katrina/26969/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/17/AR2005101701230_pf.html
